Margaret Kollmer Poems

Your Valentine, my Grandma said, will be one who loves you true
He'll cook and clean and wash your smalls and not forget the blue.
Adored you'll be, my angel child, from morning until noon
He'll tease and tickle and paddle you, with love and an ice cream spoon.
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Embrace harmony between lovers
Hold Cupid's rose in fragrant charm.
Glowing flame, dancing sky
Rhythm of the night, celestial spark.
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Breathing deeply
the night hours pass
until snug in the ageing palm
of dawn
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'Forsooth! ' cried our Romeo, 'a bedpan!
Juliet has been poisoned, hurry up man! '
Said her nurse baking bread: 'Me feet be like lead'
But with deadpan took breadpan for bedpan.
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You OUGHT to ask Mister Cliff Stoffees…the original conjuring jock!

The greatest of DeeJays
have something to learn
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Woman! How tall and strong you walk;
A far cry from the images once trod
Of wishy-washy girls
Their hair done up in curls
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I’m wanting to say things
but they come out in rhyme-
It’s hard to write ‘straightly’
Blame it Ed, on my prime.
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(Taken from the Old Phorum circa 1998)


Liberated from all desire to be liberated
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(John London’s Radio Talk Show when he was
accidentally locked in the toilet)
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